GERMANY: Arms & the Hessians

The big issue in current West German
politics is rearmament. Christian Democratic Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
wants a German army to share in West Europe's defense. Socialist Leader
Kurt Schumacher is against rearmament until German "equality" is
assured by the Western allies.

This week these conflicting stands were the main question in
parliamentary voting in the U.S.-zone states of Hesse and
Württemberg-Baden. The trend was sharply in favor of Schumacher's
Socialists. Of 80 seats, Hessians gave 47 to Schumacher's party, only
twelve to Adenauer's Christian Democrats. In Württemberg-Baden, the
Socialists boosted their seats to 35. In both states, the Communists
pulled...